Soroor Ghanimati Quotes & Sayings

One concept the non-old have trouble getting their minds around is the difference between taste and judgment. It's fine not to like almost anything, except maybe Al Green. That's taste, yours to do with as you please, critical deployment included. By comparison, judgment requires serious psychological calisthenics. But the fact that objectivity only comes naturally in math doesn't mean it can't be approximated in art.
— Robert Christgau

I must be out of my mind if I loved you in spite of everything you've done, and anyone else would condemn you for it, but I can't condemn you at all. In my own troubled mind, I loved you for it. — Donna Lynn Hope

She thought, He whom I love more than my father or mother, he of whom I am always thinking, and in whose hands I would so willingly trust my lifelong happiness. I dare do anything to win him and to gain an immortal soul. — Hans Christian Andersen

Obviously, Jay-Z is one of the greatest entertainers of the world today. Not only is he a remarkable rhetorical genius, he's also a man of deep sympathy and empathy for those who are lost and vulnerable, but especially under-educated youth of all cultures and stripes. — Michael Eric Dyson

He'd learned pretty early that the illusioned virtuous creatures were no more than that - illusions. Innocence was a community that was used up and consumed fairly quickly. More often than not, innocence was just ignorance, and the true character revealed itself before long - twisted and greedy like the rest. — Camille Oster

There's always a story that people are telling about themselves, and sometimes you can get them to tell it ever so slightly differently. — Caleb Crain

How do you choose, between reality and illusion, if both of them are true? — H.M. Cooper

There are many things we only see
clearly in retrospect. — Haruki Murakami

If you think too much about things, life sometimes just passes you by. — David Baldacci

Jared sidled up. He was not very good at sidling; he was more of a loomer. — Sarah Rees Brennan

You want to know what death is! I'll tell you what it is - death is the living forgetting you! What you smell like and look like, what your voice sounds like, how you laugh! Even if there is an afterlife, my death is going to be you going on without me until you can't remember what color my eyes are or how long my hair is - — J.R. Ward

I would never want to kill a human being. — John Maus